Read This First

If you’re checking out Church Marketing Sucks for the first time you may want to start with some of our big picture entries. We won’t say they’re the final word, but they’ll make a good beginning. For more on what Church Marketing Sucks is and who’s behind it, head over to the about section.

Big Topics

  • Church Visitors: Walking into a church for the first time can be scary. We’ve collected a host of resources to help you welcome church visitors.
  • Church Bulletins: Bulletins are perhaps the most familiar and most common piece of church marketing. It can also be the bane of your existence. We’ve got a few tips, ideas, and resources to help you better your bulletin.
  • Christmas Ideas: The church marketing Christmas elves are ready to help with planning, promotion and inspiration for Christmas.
  • Easter Ideas: We’ve got loads of Easter ideas and examples to help you with the biggest Sunday of the year.
  • Church Communicator Burnout: We do important work—sharing the gospel—but that doesn’t mean we can work ourselves to death. Burnout is a serious issue.

Resources

A great place to start is some of the resources we’ve put together:

Books

Getting Started, Outspoken, Dangerous & Heroes ebooks

We’ve released a series of books to help church communicators with everything from welcoming visitors to surviving Easter.

  • Unwelcome: 50 Ways Churches Drive Away First-Time VisitorsBuy Now >>
    Walking into a church for the first time can be scary. Are you making your first-time guests feel welcome?
  • Outspoken: Conversations on Church CommunicationBuy Now >>
    A collection of insights and wisdom from more than 60 church communications professionals. It features short chapters on every topic you need, including marketing, branding, leadership, creativity, technology and more.
  • And lots more—check out our full list of books.

Next you can check out blog posts from our archive going back to 2004:

Philosophy

Practical Ideas & Tips on Getting Started

Brand

Publicity

Copyright/Legality

Design

Technology

Writing & Editing

More Church Marketing Help:

You’ve just dipped your toe in a pool of church marketing content. Dive into our archives—which go back to 2004—for much, much more.

For even more church marketing help you can turn to our nonprofit parent, the Center for Church Communication (CFCC). As our umbrella organization, CFCC has a number of projects to help church communicators:

  • Creative Missions – A chance for communicators to use their talents to serve churches in need.
  • Local Meetups – Meet up with fellow church communicators.